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Why I'll never skip a full system scan again

Last year, I put off a full antivirus scan because it said it would take eight hours. I figured I could do it later, but later never came. A week after, my bank details were stolen from a keylogger that the scan would have caught. Now I schedule scans during my sleep, no excuses.
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west.casey
west.casey1mo ago
Yeah, totally learned that lesson the hard way too! Skipped one scan and ended up with so much adware it took forever to clean up.
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theamartinez
I used to skip them too, now I run them weekly.
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laura841
laura8411mo ago
Ugh, that is such a rough way to learn that lesson. It's crazy how one skipped scan can cause so much real trouble. Setting it up to run automatically is the only way to go.
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pat_moore
pat_moore7d ago
My cousin's old laptop got so slow after missing scans, it felt like a 1998 dial-up modem. @theamartinez has the right idea with weekly runs, saves so much headache.
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